The Hanoitimes - Hanoi still needs to quickly build a comprehensive architecture for a smart city, so that the city has a synchronous system of data collection, analysis and management. Smart urban development is Hanoi’s indispensable trend and the city has many advantages to move forward in this field. Participants visited some of the applications in smart urban management. Photo: Cong Hung Firstly, Hanoi is the economic, political and cultural center of the country. Therefore, the Vietnamese government has paid great and timely attention to the capital city. Secondly, Hanoi has economic potential, human resources, technical conditions for smart urban development. Thirdly, Hanoi has strategically visionary leaders who are determined to develop a smart capital city. This is also appreciated by experts. In fact, Hanoi has begun to put some elements of smart city into practice. For example, the iParking mobile search facility, the Timbuyt app for searching and … [Read more...] about Hanoi owns advantages to join smart urban development trend
How are app developers paid
American lays bare Vietnamese software developer’s tricks
VietNamNet Bridge - ‘Mobile protection: Clean & Security VPN’, an app of top 20 in earning growth on App Store developed by ‘Ngan Vo Thi Thuy’ has been found by medium.freecodecamp.com of tricking users out for $80,000 a month, or more than VND1 billion. The article by Johnny Lin published on June 9 on the website described in detail how ‘Mobile protection: Clean & Security VPN’ defrauds users of money. The author, surprised by the news that Apple has paid $70 billion to developers, with 30 percent of that ($21 billion!) in the last year, decided that he had to find out where these revenues were coming from. He found that even if it's a useless app, it costs $99.99 for a one-week subscription if users easily fill out the information. This app is full of ads. The author easily discovered why the app quickly became the most wanted app within two months. … [Read more...] about American lays bare Vietnamese software developer’s tricks
Apple marks 50 billionth app with big prize
Apple on Thursday announced that the number of mini-programs downloaded from its App Store has blasted past the 50 billion milestone, and celebrated the moment with a $10,000 prize. "We're absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years," Apple senior vice president of Internet software and services Eddy Cue said in a statement. "The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers." People are downloading mini-programs from the App Store at an average rate of 800 per second, according to Apple. Apple opened the virtual doors of its online App Store in July of 2008 with 500 apps for the company's coveted mobile gadgets. The online store is now stocked with more than 850,000 apps for iPhones, iPads, or iPod touch devices powered by Apple's iOS operating system. "The App Store has been integral in getting us into the hands of millions of iOS … [Read more...] about Apple marks 50 billionth app with big prize
Android apps hit 700,000 mark says Google, same as iOS
It looks like Google's app store may be squaring up to Apple's own -- at least in terms of pure volume. Google says it has about 700,000 apps in its Google Play store, the same number that Apple touted earlier this month. Google now sports 'about 700,000' apps that are available to download onto smart phones and tablets, Bloomberg reports, while Apple boss Tim Cook claimed that Apple's iOS had that number just one week ago, at the launch of the iPad mini. … [Read more...] about Android apps hit 700,000 mark says Google, same as iOS
Android offers 25p apps to celebrate 25 billion downloads
The Google Play Store is offering big-name apps for just 25p in celebration of hitting 25 billion downloads -- less than four years after the app store formerly known as Android Market was launched. Google will also offer up special collections such as 25 best-selling books and 25 must-see movies to rent, both at 99p a pop. … [Read more...] about Android offers 25p apps to celebrate 25 billion downloads